The Vancouver Police Department apprehended a man at the Oakridge Canada Line station Tuesday afternoon after responding to a report of a passenger fighting with a knife on the train.
A video of the police takedown, with the erroneous title “Mysterious Canadian skytrain passenger is found in a crowd with shot gun,” was posted to LiveLeak.com on Tuesday night and is now being shared on social media websites.
VPD spokesperson Const. Brian Montague says the ... Read More …

What do you do when you are stuck on a hot, cramped, sweaty and smelly SkyTrain for a couple of hours?
You can either: renounce your humanity and turn your train into a mass-transit version of Lord of The Flies; or,and this is the better option, come up with a funny hashtag and pass the time sending out Tweets while you await freedom, sweet freedom.
Thankfully, stranded Vancouver commuters ignored their primal urges Tuesday during ... Read More …

A Richmond woman who witnessed an alleged sexual assault on a Canada Line train is reaching out to the victim on Facebook.
In a Facebook post that was shared on the UBC Confessions page, Facebook user Kathy Yu says she witnessed a young woman being groped by a man on a train Thursday morning.
“Thursday morning at 8:20 am I saw the guy that was sexually harassing you. He was feeling and rubbing the ... Read More …

UPDATE: Two young Burnaby men have now been charged in James Enright’s death.
Taitusi Vikilani, 18, is facing one count of manslaughter and one of assault, while 22-year-old Jesse Sellam is charged with second-degree murder.
Both are local athletes in Burnaby and neither has a criminal record.
They are back in Vancouver Provincial Court Tuesday morning.
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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is looking for information in the death of a Vancouver man near ... Read More …

Vancouver commuters faced another obstacle today on TransLink’s SkyTrain service which has been beset by delays and disruptions in recent months.
A switch problem caused delays on the line between Joyce Station and Metrotown this morning. TransLink posted on its website at 9:59 a.m that a service disruption of minor severity on both the Expo and Millenium Lines was due to a problem train in the Metrotown area that has since been cleared.
The disruption ... Read More …

The Compass Card, the electronic fare reading system that was supposed to be operational on Vancouver buses and Skytrain stations in 2013, has been hit with another delay.
Translink says the contractor behind the system needs to improve the speed and reliability of the Compass Card on buses before the program can be rolled out.
We need to make sure that we get this right so we can deliver a modern, high-functioning system that consistently ... Read More …

Candidates in Vancouver-Langara — a riding where one in five people commute by transit — have offered voters several ideas for how to improve the public transportation system.
“Public transit is essential for moving people and services around B.C.,” said B.C. Liberal candidate Moira Stilwell. The B.C. Liberals platform says the party plans to bring improvements to the Broadway corridor to UBC, the Massey tunnel, Surrey and Langley. As to how to fund the projects, ... Read More …

Translink fares are going up Jan. 1, 2013. Single fares are going up about 10 per cent, while monthly passes are going up about 12.5 per cent.
A one-zone ticket will be $2.75, up from $2.50, a two-zone ticket will be $4, up from $3.75, and a three-zone ticket will cost $5.50, up from $5.
Passes are also going up; a one-zone monthly pass will be $91, up from $81, a two zone pass will ... Read More …

Here’s one: Vancouver Whitecaps defender Andy O’Brien uses the SkyTrain to get to work some days.
It very well could be an unofficial first for a professional athlete in Vancouver, or maybe the first time a local professional athlete has admitted to riding public transit to and from work. Or, maybe, it’s a more common occurrence than people think.
Either way, it sparked an amusing conversation between O’Brien and a handful of reporters Wednesday, after ... Read More …